Many of the Android producers made a reputation for themselves by promoting low cost smartphones with specs nearly as good as that of mid-rangers and generally they even share quite a lot of similarities with flagship telephones. Placing advertisements into the OS was one of many methods to make a revenue for producers that provide nice {hardware} at a considerably low worth — Xiaomi is a shining instance.
Aside from Xiaomi, OnePlus too affords flagship high quality {hardware} at an reasonably priced worth level, which is manner lower than what Samsung and Apple will as ask you. Nevertheless, one advantage of the corporate is that it by no means confirmed advertisements within the OxygenOS UI although the worth of the OnePlus telephones just isn’t even near that of different flagship smartphones like iPhones and Samsung Note collection.
In an interview, when requested why OnePlus doesn’t push advertisements in OxygenOS, the OnePlus Pete Lau mentioned that the corporate makes choices primarily based on the person expertise and that it could by no means add something that doesn’t add something to the person expertise.
CEO Pete Lau holds the view that if the product is well-made, the corporate will earn cash off of it. Pete Lau mentioned, “I have no ads, but I can make money by selling my devices a little more expensive.”
The CEO additionally mentioned that the corporate doesn’t wish to make low cost smartphones. Instead, what it needs to supply is extra value-for-money merchandise to the customers.
In the interview, the OnePlus CEO additionally talked a bit of bit about OnePlus TV, which was launched lately in India. The CEO confirmed that it’ll deliver OnePlus TV to the Chinese market someday subsequent yr. OnePlus TV can be rumored to launch in North America and Europe.
